A great place for a new graduate to start a job. The company culture and environment is great for learning and management is fairly flexible with work/life balance. Working from home can be done understand necessary circumstances and time off is normal. Benefits are great and salary is about average. Great learning opportunity for someone getting into industry and wanting to understand how a company is run.

-great communication-great structured organization-friendly working environment-lots of new things to learn-great benefits

Got to work with leading-edge WiFi technology. This company illustrates how a great product truly requires great management.

Cons

XMS V.P. and Director of Engineering came in as a pair. Very pleasant to work with but they had a difficult start as most of the better engineers were soon removed. Fortunately the pair had contractors from their previous, out-of-business company they brought in. Not as good, but extremely loyal. A lack of transparency in performance evaluations was simply due to the fact that neither had the capability to do so, having no degrees or real experience in their fields.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Discrimination based on sexual orientation is illegal. The appearance of firing someone within three weeks of registering a complaint shows fundamentally bad judgement and casts a suspicion of incompetence across all areas of a company and its products.

This was a great company and I loved being a part of its growth from a start-up who handled its own sales and service to being a larger player in the market that utilized channel partners to handle the sales.

Working with some great technology (although this has being diluted into a "me to" product)Free food in the kitchenSome of the finest technology minds in the RF fieldRelatively good office location

Cons

Lack luster management now consistently change direction and prioritiesFar too much office politics - very frustrating in such a small companyThe opportunity in RF and wireless is not what it was 5 years ago - Xirrus did not make the change into a leader fast enough and now have no USP over any other vendor; little focus on the end game for the longer standing staff...No career progression unless you are a total "yes man"

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Check the ego at the door. Listen to the technologist in the company. Stop forcing out people who challenge your thinking - focus on strengthening the team outside of the US; stop changing the team...doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same results suggests a fundamental problem with management strategy; perhaps look inwardly at yourselves rather than consistently playing the blame card.